diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/default.nix
index 7174f4b41c3c..7216e1e169d0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   doCheck = !stdenv.isDarwin
     && !stdenv.isCygwin                    # XXX: `test-dup2' fails on Cygwin
-    && !stdenv.isSunOS;                    # XXX: `test-setlocale2.sh' fails
+    && !stdenv.isSunOS                     # XXX: `test-setlocale2.sh' fails
+    && !stdenv.isFreeBSD;                  # XXX: test 084 fails
 
   configureFlags = "--with-syscmd-shell=${stdenv.shell}";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/native/default.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/native/default.nix
index bd90d580d3f5..93d1c7e971c2 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/native/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/native/default.nix
@@ -24,6 +24,100 @@ rec {
     alias make=gmake
     alias tar=gtar
     alias sed=gsed
+
+    alias patch=gpatch # pcre relied on this for patching binary files
+
+    # we need GNU cp for --reflink, need to alias all of coreutils
+    alias basename=gbasename
+    alias cat=gcat
+    alias chgrp=gchgrp
+    alias chmod=gchmod
+    alias chown=gchown
+    alias chroot=gchroot
+    alias cksum=gcksum
+    alias comm=gcomm
+    alias cp=gcp
+    alias csplit=gcsplit
+    alias cut=gcut
+    alias date=gdate
+    alias dd=gdd
+    alias df=gdf
+    alias dir=gdir
+    alias dircolors=gdircolors
+    alias dirname=gdirname
+    alias du=gdu
+    alias echo=gecho
+    alias env=genv
+    alias expand=gexpand
+    alias expr=gexpr
+    alias factor=gfactor
+    alias false=gfalse
+    alias fmt=gfmt
+    alias fold=gfold
+    alias groups=ggroups
+    alias head=ghead
+    alias hostid=ghostid
+    alias hostname=ghostname
+    alias id=gid
+    alias install=ginstall
+    alias join=gjoin
+    alias kill=gkill
+    alias link=glink
+    alias ln=gln
+    alias logname=glogname
+    alias ls=gls
+    alias md5sum=gmd5sum
+    alias mkdir=gmkdir
+    alias mkfifo=gmkfifo
+    alias mknod=gmknod
+    alias mv=gmv
+    alias nice=gnice
+    alias nl=gnl
+    alias nohup=gnohup
+    alias od=god
+    alias paste=gpaste
+    alias pathchk=gpathchk
+    alias pinky=gpinky
+    alias pr=gpr
+    alias printenv=gprintenv
+    alias printf=gprintf
+    alias ptx=gptx
+    alias pwd=gpwd
+    alias readlink=greadlink
+    alias rm=grm
+    alias rmdir=grmdir
+    alias seq=gseq
+    alias sha1sum=gsha1sum
+    alias shred=gshred
+    alias sleep=gsleep
+    alias sort=gsort
+    alias split=gsplit
+    alias stat=gstat
+    alias stty=gstty
+    alias su=gsu
+    alias sum=gsum
+    alias sync=gsync
+    alias tac=gtac
+    #alias tail=gtail # this breaks xz XXX
+    alias tee=gtee
+    alias test=gtest
+    alias touch=gtouch
+    alias tr=gtr
+    alias true=gtrue
+    alias tsort=gtsort
+    alias tty=gtty
+    alias uname=guname
+    alias unexpand=gunexpand
+    alias uniq=guniq
+    alias unlink=gunlink
+    alias uptime=guptime
+    alias users=gusers
+    alias vdir=gvdir
+    alias wc=gwc
+    alias who=gwho
+    alias whoami=gwhoami
+    alias yes=gyes
+
     export MAKE=gmake
     shopt -s expand_aliases
   '';
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/miniupnpc/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/miniupnpc/default.nix
index ac68b55ad17f..644045800d4e 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/miniupnpc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/miniupnpc/default.nix
@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
 
-let version = "24d54ba13af4e53aba19c23898a373feecb41bd0"; in
+let version = "1.9.20150430"; in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "miniupnpc-${version}";
 
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "miniupnp";
-    repo = "miniupnp";
-    sha256 = "0j78dvlfh1a3a27zhvv001cb1d7vcgyv33bd1zr36drg64b6hrgw";
-    rev = version;
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://miniupnp.free.fr/files/download.php?file=${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0ivnvzla0l2pzmy8s0j8ss0fnpsii7z9scvyl4a13g9k911hgmvn";
+    name = "${name}.tar.gz";
   };
 
-  doCheck = true;
+  patches = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isFreeBSD [ ./freebsd.patch ];
+
+  doCheck = !stdenv.isFreeBSD;
 
   installFlags = "PREFIX=$(out) INSTALLPREFIX=$(out)";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/miniupnpc/freebsd.patch b/pkgs/tools/networking/miniupnpc/freebsd.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..42ae85a8e6b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/miniupnpc/freebsd.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff --git a/minihttptestserver.c b/minihttptestserver.c
+index bbfdac3..a43999d 100644
+--- a/minihttptestserver.c
++++ b/minihttptestserver.c
+@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
++#ifndef INADDR_LOOPBACK
++#define INADDR_LOOPBACK         0x7f000001
++#endif
+ /* $Id: minihttptestserver.c,v 1.17 2015/02/06 10:31:19 nanard Exp $ */
+  /* Project : miniUPnP
+    * Author : Thomas Bernard